Brother Jack McDuff: Moon Rappin' - Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue [Vinyl 1LP 180g]

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
premiera polska: 2022-05-27
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Editor's info:
Brother Jack McDuff was already a well-established and prolific organist who led his own soul jazz bands throughout the 1960s when he came to Blue Note Records in 1969. Following his label debut Down Home Style, McDuff made one of the most creatively ambitious albums of his career with Moon Rappin’, which was released in 1970. The album featured 5 funky, spaced-out McDuff originals including hard-grooving numbers like “Flat Backin’” and “Loose Foot,” as well innovative tracks like “Moon Rappin’” and “Oblighetto,” which would later be permanently ingrained into hip hop history when it was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest as the foundation of 2 of their all-time classic tracks: “Scenario” and “Check the Rhime.”

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

A marvelous bandleader and organist as well as capable arranger, “Brother” Jack McDuff has one of the funkiest, most soulful styles of all time on the Hammond B-3. His rock-solid basslines and blues-drenched solos are balanced by clever, almost pianistic melodies and interesting progressions and phrases. McDuff began as a bassist playing with Denny Zeitlin and Joe Farrell. He studied privately in Cincinnati and worked with Johnny Griffin in Chicago. He taught himself organ and piano in the mid-’50s, and began gaining attention working with Willis Jackson in the late ’50s and early ’60s, cutting high caliber soul-jazz dates for Prestige. McDuff made his recording debut as a leader for Prestige in 1960, playing in a studio pickup band with Jimmy Forrest. They made a pair of outstanding albums. Tough Duff and The Honeydripper. McDuff organized his own band the next year, featuring Harold Vick and drummer Joe Dukes. Things took off when McDuff hired a young guitarist named George Benson. They were among the most popular combos of the mid-’60s and made several excellent albums. McDuff’s later groups at Atlantic and Cadet didn’t equal the level of the Benson band, while later dates for Verve and Cadet were uneven, though generally good. McDuff experimented with electronic keyboards and fusion during the ’70s, then in the ’80s got back in the groove with the Muse session Cap’n Jack. While his health fluctuated throughout the ’90s, McDuff released several discs on the Concord Jazz label before succumbing to heart failure on January 23, 2001, at the age of 74. ~ Ron Wynn and Bob Porter

muzycy:
Brother Jack McDuff - organ
Unknown - trumpet
Bill Phillips - tenor saxophone, flute
Unknown - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
Jerry Byrd - guitar
Richard Davis - electric bass
Joe Dukes - drums

utwory:
A1. Flat Backin
A2. Oblighetto
B1. Moon Rappin'
B2. Made In Sweden
B3. Loose Foot

total time - 46:00
wydano: 2022-05-27 (1969)
nagrano: Recorded December 1, 2, 3 & 11, 1969

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